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Hi, does anyway have any advice on the best way to mount the IR transmitter for the Sat control. I had an intermittent problem yesterday while testing it where if I had selected the S for a Sat Timer Recording and put in channel 104 for example, I watched it put the one in, then it did the four. Obviously entered 14 into a Sky box does nothing except disappears and leaves you on the existing channel.

I find the IR thing a bit of a stupid design, obviously the received in the box points horizontal at the user sitting on the sofa, so to lay the IR from the XS32 flat doesnt work at all as its transmitter points straight up to the ceiling, I tried this and got nothing. You cant even mount the IR vertically cos someone decided to bring the wire out of the bottom. The one on my old philips was actually pointing at 45 degrees and worked a treat. I cant get my head round this one, if I was to stick it vertically to the Sky box, am I right on thinking that a) it could be too close and b) the Sky remote signal would not get through

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Mmm interesting, so does this bypass the IR receiver on the front and send commands directly to the Sky Box from round the back through an electrical connection

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It still goes via an IR receiver, but that receiver is connected to the 2nd aerial output at the back and is powered from the box via the aerial lead. It's something I had considered, but I already have one in use in another room and am not sure if you can have two magic eyes on there.